Friday, Apr. 19, 1963
Snow White in Connecticut
My Six Loves will put a lump in the throat of everyone who likes to have one there. Debbie Reynolds is a battle-fatigued Snow White who flees from the hurly-burly of life as a movie star to her place in Connecticut, and discovers six dwarfs and a dog living in a greenhouse at the bottom of the garden. Their names are Leo, Sherman, Dulcie, Amy, Brenda, Sonny and Butch. Leo is the grumpy one, and Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming, in the guise of a freewheeling young minister (Cliff Robertson), sets everything in order, including problems of ear washing, adoption and matrimony. Coos Debbie, who speaks Californian: "You're a regular wonder, Reverent."
Even children--at whom this VistaVision lollipop is obviously aimed--won't be suckers enough to swallow all of the raspberry-flavored plot; and a dragged-in reel or two dealing with Debbie's hankering to act in a Broadway play instead of settling down to foster-motherhood is just one more of show business' painful salutes to show business. But there is still plenty of rough-and-tumble fun and some good character bits played by Eileen Heckart and Alice Ghostley. Anyhow, it's spring.
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